Chapter 152: Chapter 152

Locke had developed ten acres of magical fields for cultivating Jade Iris Lichen in his second medium-small botanical garden.

The ten acres of magical fields before Locke were lush and verdant. Emerald lichen was already a very beautiful magical plant, with each tiny leaf-like part of the lichen as beautiful as gems.

The iris lichen that Locke had cultivated had a rainbow-like film covering the surface of its leaf-like parts.

This made the Jade Iris Lichen magical field look like it was planted with gems, with rainbow light reflecting above this field of emerald gems.

Beside the ten-acre magical field, five minotaur noble slaves were irrigating these Jade Iris Lichens with nutrient solution under Locke's direction.

Locke observed this scene, "The first batch of Jade Iris Lichen is about to be produced. The cultivation cost of Jade Iris Lichen is actually somewhat lower than Crystal Palm Fire Lotus."

Besides the fixed 200 magic stone advanced breeder three-piece set, Jade Iris Lichen only required 100 magic stones worth of shadow agent per five tons, plus 50 magic stones per pound of beast bones.

Because Jade Iris Lichen was actually a fungal magical plant, it needed to convert rotting beast bones to produce special nutritional components.

Shadow agent was a very simple potion studies product, so simple that third-class wizard apprentices could mass-produce it with proper training.

Except for specific pharmaceutical laboratorys dedicated to this low-end industry, other pharmaceutical laboratorys, including Locke's, were too lazy to make this.

Because the price was very cheap with no technical or cost barriers, the only barrier was that nobody wanted to waste energy producing this stuff themselves.

During cultivation, Jade Iris Lichen required mixing small amounts of shadow agent into the soil for the magical plant to grow robustly.

Because it didn't need weather control equipment like Crystal Palm Fire Lotus and had no special temperature requirements, while the supporting beast bones and shadow agent were both cheap low-level products, the cultivation costs were indeed relatively low.

Developing these ten acres of magical fields cost only 400 magic stones total.

After this month, due to income from the Treatment Center, botanical garden income, plus magic stones saved from the previous procurement contract, his magic stone reserves and the second procurement contract had reached an astonishing 28,300!

However, because meditation method expenses over these two months totaled 16,800, plus developing magical fields and miscellaneous expenses, Locke currently had only 10,700 in savings but for ordinary first-class wizard apprentice workers, this was still a fortune.

Locke also planned to use this fortune to make a large purchase of magical resources at Chimera Trading Market to forcibly boost his mental power.

After all, corresponding to this fortune, he had only gained 5 points of magical power this month.

But compared to when he wasn't using advanced meditation methods, the growth rate had already multiplied many times. After all, when he was at over 200 points of magical power, it took two months to increase just 1 point (lower magical power quality than now).

His current substantial mental power growth rate was about 24 times faster than when he didn't use advanced meditation methods or additional resources, and 4 times faster than using only advanced meditation methods without additional resources.

Locke looked at the Jade Iris Lichen before him. Over this month, he had not only cultivated these ten acres of Jade Iris Lichen, but also continuously used them here to improve his Mana Co-frequency Cultivation Method level in preparation for the breeder exam in one month.

At the same time, Locke had made a bold attempt.

Locke approached five Jade Iris Lichens in a separately developed one-acre magical field. He gently cut off the upper half of one Jade Iris Lichen with a small knife, then transplanted a section of malignantly deteriorated Tiflo Root Vines obtained from treating Ruxin onto the Jade Iris Lichen.

Locke used bamboo sticks to secure the two together, chanted an incantation, and cast Minor Grafting Healing, then sprinkled advanced growth gel with his left hand.

Under Locke's magic and the advanced growth gel, the two different grafted magical plants rapidly healed together.

There were some subtle magical energy conflicts between them, causing their wounds to heal, then ulcerate, then heal again, then ulcerate again.

In fact, over this month, he had continuously fine-tuned the Minor Grafting Healing spell model and constantly attempted to cultivate Jade Iris Lichen varieties that could adapt to the negative energy on the deteriorated vines.

The grafting cultivation experiment before him had been repeated for over half a month, wasting more than ten Jade Iris Lichens.

Locke's gaze fixed on the wound of the Jade Iris Lichen, his pupils suddenly contracting, because under his Minor Grafting Healing technique, this Jade Iris Lichen's wound had finally grown together with the deteriorated vine.

"Success." Locke felt slightly excited. "My hypothesis was feasible. This is a variant magical plant of Jade Iris Lichen that I conceived based on existing materials after synthesizing advanced magical plants with the magic cube!"

He saw that under the effect of advanced growth gel, this Jade Iris Lichen underwent corresponding changes to adapt to the deteriorated vine, while that deteriorated vine rapidly underwent some optimization.

The dull red color on the vine's surface transformed to green, and the barbs regressed one by one. The Tiflo Root Vine was actually slowly recovering its original form.

Although it couldn't completely return to its original state, the vine that had shown malignant deterioration was indeed showing variety improvement again.

Simultaneously, his Jade Iris Lichen underwent morphological changes. The color and luster remained unchanged, but the original small leaf-like fungal lichen merged between leaves, forming a hard shell, becoming shell-like fungal lichen.

This hard shell was about the size of a small round shield.

It looked like a huge emerald round shield that could refract rainbow-colored light.

Locke dipped a bamboo stick into the fungal mucus on the surface of this special variety of Jade Iris Lichen he had newly cultivated, then applied it to a section of deteriorated magical plant vine obtained from Ruxin. The vine's surface immediately appeared burned, began rapid dehydration, and parts of this deteriorated magical plant vine also showed positive transformation.

"Success." Locke thought: "I previously hypothesized that lichen was inherently a magical plant prone to mutations."

"Since my Jade Iris Lichen possesses highly adaptive magic resistance changing abilities, as long as I use grafting cultivation methods to graft the mutated magic vine from Ruxin onto the Jade Iris Lichen, I can make the Jade Iris Lichen continuously adapt to this plant curse."

"Producing corresponding magic resistance."

"This way, I can create a magical plant that can resist specific curses." Locke quickly calmed down. "Emerald lichen was originally just a consumable magical plant used for brewing potions, not a combat magical plant."

"Its foundation isn't good enough."

"The special variety of Jade Iris Lichen I've created now has only adapted to a single curse and isn't stable yet. So this can only be considered a beginning, it can't be considered a completed work."

"I need to use this mutated Jade Iris Lichen as the mother plant, continuously reproduce using cutting cultivation methods, and use its offspring with grafting cultivation methods to transplant more magical plant curses, so it can adapt to different curses." Tʜe source of this ᴄontent ɪs n0velfire.net